Oakland Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Oakland Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was built about 1800, and is a clapboard house with two flanking wings set back from the façade.”
Wikipedia article Oakland Plantation (Fort Motte, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Fort Motte off SC 26 on SR 1, Fort Motte, 29135
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Fort Motte-Lone Star
National Register reference number. 75001689 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 395 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Midway Plantation	1.8 miles	1976
Zante Plantation	2.2 miles	1976
Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant	4.2 miles	1976
Col. Olin M. Dantzler House	6.3 miles	1973
Calhoun County Library	6.4 miles	1975
Col. J. A. Banks House	6.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001689 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 14 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.